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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Multisensory Structured Language
Diphthong
Samuel T. Orton
Receptive language
MSL
2. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Social language
Whole Language
Three Layers of Language
3. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Keith Stanovich
VAKT
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Reading Comprehension Support
4. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Diphthong
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Whole Language
5. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
SBOE
The Norman Conquest
Achievement test
6. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Frank Smith
Mathew Effect
Norm-Referenced Test
Academic Achievement Tests
7. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
IMSLEC
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Comprehension
Oral Language
8. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Progress Monitoring
Phonemic Awareness
Fluency
Digraph
9. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Progress Monitoring
Affix
Sight Words
Syntax
10. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Linguistic Method
MSLE
Modern English
Accuracy
11. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
VC
Vowel Digraph
Comprehension
12. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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13. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Auditory Processing
Towre
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
14. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Semantics
Joe Torgesen
Suffix
Vowel Digraph
15. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Direct Instruction
Simultaneous teaching
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
16. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Diphthong
Rate
Tilde
17. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Samuel T. Orton
Direct Instruction
ADHD
18. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Matthew Effect
Reliability
Open Syllable
19. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
WIATII
Latin layer of language
Funding
Stanine Scores
20. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Percentile
Phonemic/ decodable words
Greek layer of language
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
21. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Academic Achievement Tests
Six basic types of syllables
Chall's Stage 3
22. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
V >
Tilde
ADHD
The Norman Conquest
23. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Phoneme
Derivative
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Vowel
24. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Age equivalent
Texas Education Code 38.003
Latin layer of language
25. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
VV
Social language
Syntax
Attention
26. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Multisensory
Academic Achievement Tests
Linguistic Method
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
27. r-controlled syllable
GORT
Breve
Great Vowel Shift
Vr
28. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Diagnostic Teaching
Norm-Referenced Test
Matthew Effect
Combination
29. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Anna Gillingham
Affix
SBOE
Composite Score
30. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Keith Stanovich
Adolf Kusmaul
Dyslexia
Impulsivity
31. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Chall's Stage 5
Semantics
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Funding
32. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Cedilla
James Hinshelwood
Semantics
Analytic
33. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Reliability
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Old English
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
34. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
RTI
Cedilla
Macron
Towre
35. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
ESL
Top-down Reading Approach
Texas Education Code 38.003
Phoneme
36. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Keith Stanovich
Dyslexia
RTI
37. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Comprehension
Top-down Reading Approach
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
IEP
38. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Universal Screening
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
NICHD
MSL
39. Academic Language Therapy Association
Rate
Receptive language
ALTA
Chall's Stage 5
40. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
VV
Accommodation
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Multi-Sensory Approach
41. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Norm-referenced tests
Visual Processing
Phonics
42. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Norm-Referenced Test
ESL
WIATII
Macron
43. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Digraph
Syllable
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Keith Stanovich
44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
IMSLEC
Cedilla
VAKT
Consonant Digraph
45. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
GORT
Progress Monitoring
Universal Screening
Modification
46. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Age equivalent
Vowel Digraph
ADHD
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
47. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Matthew Effect
Middle English
Social language
Impulsivity
48. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Profile
WRAT
Towre
Prefix
49. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Grapheme
Criterion referenced tests
Frank Smith
Cognition
50. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Latin layer of language
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Norm-Referenced Test